Even the most insane diets ever published were never attacked like the Atkins diet.
Dr. Atkins was THE ENEMY to bakers, pasta makers, potato farmers, and the high fructose corn syrup industry.
I'm still doing Atkins, but it's certainly more difficult and expensive since the High Carb industry went to such lengths to discredit the Atkins diet.
I still hear the whispering campaign, claiming that Atkins is dangerous, from people who "Read is somewhere", so JUST KNOW it's true.
The real money is in the high carb foods, and the "food" industry is certainly more concerned with profit than our health.
Too bad this falls harder on the primitive peoples of the world.
I lost about 50 pounds, and notice that I am also much clearer headed.
It IS astonishing, isn't it? I lost so much weight so fast that Jenny Craig et al would be out of business inside a year if it really caught on. My own doctor's knee-jerk response was "BAD!!!", then he looked at my weight chart and my blood chemistry results and said "keep doing what you are doing".
Atkins nailed it. It is an insulin response phenomenon. Keep the pressure up and the junk food gurus will find a way to allow their food and my insulin response via new wonder drugs. (Not that I have to partake of course).